SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 1140
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES CRAWFORD, REINHART AND KELLY (36) (Co-sponsors).
Pre-filed December 5, 2001, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapter 568, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to selling a child, with a penalty provision.
Section A. Chapter 568, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 568.176, to read as follows:
568.176. 1. Any person who sells or attempts to sell any person less than eighteen years of age to another or receives money or anything of value in consideration of placing any person less than eighteen years of age in the custody or under the power or control of another, or who buys or attempts to buy any person less than eighteen years of age, or pays money or delivers anything of value to another in consideration of having any person less than eighteen years of age placed in his or her custody or under his or her power or control is guilty of a class B felony.
2. The provisions of this section shall not apply to legitimate adoptions or to legitimate actions by department of
corrections officials or county jailers.
Missouri House of Representatives